On the train to Shanghai we had some baiju (Chinese rice wine), it's a lethal drink (not in the good sense)! Tom, Dave and I went for a walk through the train - planning to meet some Chinese people in the restaurant car but when we arrived everyone was sleeping on the tables, so we carried on and found a cargo carriage with hundreds of boxes full of live baby chicks cheeping away! Some of the chicks had escaped from their boxes so we decided to take four of them ...

I have been eating SO MUCH in Shanghai - everything from pot luck choices off a Chinese picture menu in a pokey place packed with locals, to fancy Western cuisine in an outdoor rooftop restaurant with a view of the city lit up at night - it has all been delicious. There are Haagen-Dazs outlets everywhere so I've also been eating lots of ice cream My tolerance for spicy food must not to be up to Chinese standards - one spicy chilli beef dish had me coughing, snif...